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rise with more regularity and more gradually, are richer, and 

 each note is more complete in itself. Its song of lamentation, 

 when robbed of its young, is full of indescribable pathos and 

 beauty, haunting one who has heard it long after." 



AVilsoii's Tlirii!>$h, or Veery 



Tardus (Hylociclila) fuscescens 



Little Thrush, Latham, Syn. ii. pt. i. 1783, 20 No. 5 (not of Pennant). 



Turdus minor, Gm. SN. i. pt. ii. 1788, 809, No. 32 (in part ; mixed with swainsoni). 



Turdus musteliuus, was. AO. v. 1812, 98, pi. 43, f. 3 {nee Gm., necauct.). 



Turdus fuscescens. Step),.. Shaw's GZ. x. 1817, \%'i.'—? Kneel. Pr. Best. Soc. vi. 1857, 234. —M. 

 BNA. 1858, 214.— Sri.PZS. 1859,326 (critical).— .STcL Ibis, 18R1, 282— Gi^id. J. f. 0. 1861, 

 .Til (Cuba).— £a?er. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 1861, 326 (New Granada). Ooues ^ Prent. Smiths. 

 Rep. for 1861, 1862, iOi.—Scl. Cat. AB. 1862, 'i.—Hayd. Tr. Am. Philos. Soc. 1862, 

 158. — Kerr. Pr. Essex Inst. iii. 1862, 14.j.—BteA;is(. Ibis, v. ISW, 58 (Saskatchewan). — B(i. 

 Rev. AB. 1864, 11.— All. Pr. Ess. Inst. iv. 1864, 5(J.—Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 1866, 

 'iii.—McIliD. Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1866, 81 (Canada West).— Cowes, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. 1868, 

 266.— Co«es, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii. 1868, im.— Allen, Mem. Boat. Soc. i. 1858, 493, 514.— ^ZZ. 

 Am. Nat. ii. 1868, 489. — Pe^i. Orn. Bras, ii, 1868, ^^.—Turnb. B. E. Pa. 1869, 21; Phila. 

 ed. \i.—Ridg. Pr. Phila. Acad. xxi. 1869, 127 (critical).— May^i. Nat. Guide, 1870, 90.— 

 Ahbou, Am. Nat. iv. 1870, 540, 541.— Afayi. Pr. Bost. Soc. xiv, 1871, —. — Stevenson, U. 

 8. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, 463.— .i;/. Bull. MCZ. ii. 1871, 256 ; iii. 1872, 155, 

 173 (Colorado).— A/ny?;. B. Fla. 1872, \Q.— Coues, Kpy, 1872, 73.— £(ijf. Am. Nat. viii. 

 1874. 271.- Oundl. J. f. O. 1872, 405 {C\iha.).—Mayn. Pr Bost. Soc. xiv. 1872, 357.— Coues, 

 BNW. 1874, 5; Trippe, ibid. 228 (Colorado).— ^Z/e?i, Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1874, 48 

 (Dakota).— i?. B. (f R. NAB. i, 1874, 9, pi. i. f. s.— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. xvii. 1875, 438. 



Turdus fuseesens. Bam. Smiths. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 435. 



Turdus Sllens, Vieill. EM. ii. 1823, 647 {=mustelinus Wils.; ncc silens Sw.). 



Turdus Wilsonlt, Bp. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 34 (based onmnstelinus Wils. nee Gm.).—Bp. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 1826, 16. — Peah. Rep. Orn. Mass. 1839,306.— And. OB. ii. 1834, 362, 

 pi. lei.— And. Syn. 1839, 90.—Aud. BA. iii.1841, 27, pi. 145.— Oa6. Pn. Peru. 1845-46, 

 \8i.—0ab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1817 (i), Wo.—Homeyer, Rhea, ii. 1849, 148 (monog.). —/foy, 

 Pr. Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 310 (Wisconsin). — TAom/js. Vermont, 1853, 79.—Bead, Pr. 

 Phila. Acad. vi. 1853, 398 (Oh\o). —Ke7inic. Tr. 111. Agrie. Soc. i. 1855, 601.— Pratten, Tr. 

 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 601.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. for 1864, 1865, 437 (Missouri).— rrz>i>e, 

 Pr. Essex Inst. vi. 1871, 115. 



Turdus wUsoill, Bp. C. & GL. 1838, 17.— B;;. CA. i. 1850, -^IL-Gund. J. f. O. 1855, 470 

 {Cuha).—Putn. Pr. Ess. Inst. i. 1856, 209.— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 307 (Cuba).— 

 Gund. 3. f. O. 1861, 405 (Cuba). 



Merula WilSOnll, Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. 1844, 191. 



Merula minor, Sw. 4- Rich. FBA. ii. 1831, 179, pi. 38.—.' Denny. PZ5. 1847, 38. 



Turdus minor. Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 408.— D'OrJ. LaSagra's Cuba, Ois. 1840, 47, pi. 5.—Degl.- 

 Gerbe, OE. i. 1867, 424 (Europe). 



Turdus bruneus, Brew. Journ. Bost. Soc. vi. 1852, 304 (chare, and habits).— Ca6o«, Naum. 



Bd. ii. Hft. iii. 1852, 66 (Lake Superior). 

 Merl« grivette, Degland- Gerbe. 



Ch. sp. — 9 ^ Rufo-hrunneus, cauda concolore ; infra albus^ 

 lateribus canis,jugulo tantum ixdlide Jlavo-hrunnescente, maculis 

 minimis, sparsis, sagitlatis fuscis notato. 



Entire upper parts reddish-brown, with a faint olivaceous tinge ; no con- 

 trast of color between back and tail ; quills and tail-feathers darker and 



